Nicholas Kapetanis's Public Library

22 Sep 09

Peter's Online Typing Course - Online Typing Lessons for Everyone!

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15 Sep 09

MabryOnline.org: 2007 Film Festival

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This year's sold out, black tie event is like the Oscars for education. Student film maker teams arrived, in spectacular attire, to walk the red carpet to their pre-party celebratory events.

23 Jun 09

VoiceThread as a Digital Portfolio | Teaching Sagittarian

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We used an email that did not technically exist
The email address isn’t required to gain the password
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- write the script first then take an image that fits what you’re talking about.
- We have our learning intentions and success criteria plastered around the room, plus we write them in our books but I realised after doing these VoiceThreads - it’s not enough.
- Some students still aren’t making the connections between the things we do in class and the learning that we want to occur.
- Keep one or two of these VoiceThreads as a model for next years class
- Perhaps set a target of 5 pages per semester
- only first names are mentioned
- I had each student create their own basic free account and therefore they have a limit of 3 VoiceThreads - each VoiceThread can have up to 200 pages.
- When each student created their VoiceThread they had to share it with me so that I could track their recordings.
- We kept the VoiceThreads private until just before the Student-Led Conferences.
- I use a free educator account which allows me to have unlimited VoiceThreads. Any VoiceThreads that are a collaborative effort, are made through this account.
- set up an RSS feed to my GoogleReader to help me keep track of the changes that students were making to their ePortfolios

15 Jun 09

How to Build Better ePortfolios, by Sascha Zuger

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"I chose this year to have my
5th, 6th, and 7th grade math classes create an ePortfolio by using
Microsoft OneNote 2007

08 Jun 09

AHCA: Medicaid Services

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on need as confirmed by an assessment and provided in accordance with an individual service plan for each resident.
residents who require an integrated set of services on a 24-hour basis
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- medication assistance
- assisted living facilities

06 Jun 09

How to Qualify for Medicaid Nursing Home and Assisted Living Beneftis in Florida

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applicant must be a U.S.
citizen
The
person must have some form of impairment that limits their
activities of daily living to a point where a nursing home is
needed.
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- they require supervision, assessment or
  planning by a Registered Nurse.
- need the care on a
  daily basis
- over 65

Qualifying for Florida Medicaid Nursing Home and Assisted Living Benefits

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Intermediate or Custodial care is not covered under any
circumstances.
Medicaid Institutionalized Care Program (ICP)
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- Medicaid provides a variety of
  medically related assistance programs at reduced or no
  cost to those who qualify
- Florida also now funds what are
  known as
  "diversion" programs or
  
  "Medicaid assistive services" which will help pay for care at home or
  in an assisted living facility environment.
- The Medicaid Nursing Home Care
  Program (ICP) is
  administered by
  
  Florida Agency for Health Care Administration - Medicaid.
  Eligibility for the program, however, is determined by the
  
  Florida Department of Children and Families - Medicaid or the
  Social Security Administration
- The person receiving benefits must contribute
  an amount based on his/her monthly income. This amount
  is referred to as “Patent Responsibility”. Medicaid
  then pays the nursing home the remaining expense based
  on the then approved rate for the facility.

20 May 09

Balancing 2 Faces of ePortfolios

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An ePortfolio is not a specific software package, but more
a combination of process (a series of activities)
and product (the end result of the ePortfolio
process).
Working Portfolio
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- "workspace" or some schools
  have called the [digital] shoebox
- "showcase" and schools call "showtime!"
- Presentation Portfolios
- Reflection takes place at several
  points in time
- present tense
- reflection in the
  future tense
- Most ePortfolio systems tend to emphasize the showcase (portfolio as
  product)
- The most basic level of creating an electronic
  portfolio is the collection of work in a digital archive
- The
  basic activity at this level is converting student work into digital
  formats
- Level 2: ePortfolio as Workspace/Process -
  Collection + Reflection
- At this level, a learner keeps a
  learning journal (organized chronologically, with a blog) and reflects on their
  learning as represented in the samples of
  their work (artifacts stored in the Digital Archive) or attached/linked to
  a blog entry.
- At this level, the artifacts should represent more
  than a single curriculum area, and demonstrate the many ways that students
  are using technology across
  the curriculum.
- The primary role of the teacher at this level is to provide
  formative feedback on the students' work
- Level 3: ePortfolio as Showcase/Product -
  Selection/Reflection + Direction + Presentation
- Organized thematically
  (in web pages or wiki)
- This level of portfolio development requires the student
  to organize one or more presentation portfolios around a set of
  learning outcomes,
  goals or standards
  (depending on purpose and audience)
- The presentation portfolio can be developed
  with a variety of tools
- usually consists of a set of hyperlinked web
  pages
- locally on the school server, on a CD-Recordable disc,
  or on a publicly-accessible
  website
- server-based
  wiki software

08 May 09

Why Are Blogs So Popular? | Blogging | Profitable Point

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Comment Feature
Content Is Update Regularly
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- Conversional nature of posts
- Easy To Add In Content
- Format of content
- They are arrange in chronological with the latest entries at the very top of the blog
- It is this formatting style which is journalistic in nature that appeals to many people.
- Blogs are popular and they are only going to get more and more popular not only as an avenue for people to express themselves and voice out their opinions

Why are blogs popular and what are their benefits? | NetAlert

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Blogs are very popular with children aged 13-19 and young adults aged 20-29. They give people the opportunity to publish on the Internet their thoughts and reflections of issues important to them

What are blogs, and how did they become so popular?

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blog

A weblog is usually defined as a personal or noncommercial web site that uses a dated log format (usually with the most recent addition at the top of the page) and contains links to other web sites along with commentary about those sites. A weblog is updated frequently and sometimes groups links by specific subjects, such as politics, news, pop culture, or computer issues.
Blogger was released in August 1999
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- By October 2000, Blogger users were creating 300 new blogs a day, and the Blogger directory had over 5,500 blogs listed. In November of the same year, the 10,000th
  Blogger weblog was created. As of 2002, Blogger claimed over 750,000 users.

28 Apr 09

Google Earth Outreach

Explains how to add YouTube video to GoogleEarth

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GoogleEarth

George Washington

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george_washington

The first president of the United States, George Washington, is often referred to as the Father of Our Country.

27 Apr 09

Dashboard | Diigo

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diigo

21 Apr 09

Johnny Depp: Biography from Answers.com

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johnny_depp

Johnny Depp was first famous as a heartthrob cop on the teenybopper drama 21 Jump Street (1987-1990). Then he gave up TV for the movies, playing the fantastical title character in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990)
- Born: Jun 09, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky
- Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director
- Active: '90s-2000s
- Major Genres: Drama, Fantasy
- Career Highlights: Dead Man, Before Night Falls, Before Night Falls
- First Major Screen Credit: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Johnny Depp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Johnny_Depp

Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, Sr., a civil engineer.^[3] He has one brother, Danny, and two sisters, Christie (now his personal manager)
Depp has 13 tattoos, many of them signifying important persons or events in his life
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- "Lily-Rose" (his daughter's name) over his heart,

Johnny Depp Biography all about Johnny

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He
actually taught himself to play the guitar his mother bought him when he was
growing into his teenage years...later he would enjoy some success as a
"garage rocker"
He joined a band called "The Flame"
and started working in nightclubs with them even though he wasn't yet old
enough to do so legally...he would sneak in and out through the back door of
these establishments.
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- He
  was supporting himself between gigs by selling ballpoint pens by phone.

17 Apr 09

Collaborative Writing Site MixedInk Launches : January 2009 : THE Journal

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collaboration writing Languagearts

free online collaborative writing site,
allow groups of people to compose their ideas into a collective text
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- The invitation can be public, inviting all registered visitors to contribute, or it can be limited to a group of people identified by the organizer.
- organizer proposes a topic and invites others to participate.
- Users contribute their ideas and opinions about the given subject and edit and remix the submissions from each other. They also rate each others' submissions, thereby raising the visibility of the ones that best capture the group's viewpoint.
- FAQ on the site, "the highest rated text--created jointly by many different users--represents the group's collective opinion." At each stage, as writers feed into the text and that verbiage gets picked up and included in subsequent versions, the service maintains a record of who contributed.

MixedInk - Free Collaborative Writing Tool

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16 Apr 09

Teacher Lesson Plan - George Washington

George Washington:
First in War,
First in Peace, and
First in the Hearts of His Countrymen

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History george_washington

George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen
In preparation, teachers should review the on line documents and suggested readings accompanying each
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- determine appropriateness for thei